abandoned

English

Etymology

From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩d/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)

1. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]
   • 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:

     Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.

2. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century]
   • 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     […] your abandoned streams […]

3. Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:

     Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.

4. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

Synonyms

• (immoral): bad, corrupt, demoralized, depraved, dissolute, graceless, hardened, impetuous, impenitent, incorrigible, irreclaimable, licentious, lost, obdurate, profligate, reckless, rejected, reprobate, shameless, sinful, uninhibited, unprincipled, unrestrained, vicious, vile, wanton, wicked, wild . See also Thesaurus:evil
• (forsaken): careless, deserted, discarded, forsaken

Derived terms

• abandoned child syndrome
• abandoned habits
• abandonedly
• abandonedness
• abandoned property
• bando
• nonabandoned
• phantom abandoned call
• self-abandoned
• semiabandoned
• unabandoned

 

Translations

wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin

• Bulgarian: разпуснат (bg) m (razpusnat), разпусната (bg) f (razpusnata)
• Chamorro: maabandona, madingo, mayute
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放蕩／放荡 (zh) (fàngdàng)

• Dutch: schaamteloos (nl), verdorven (nl), liederlijk (nl)
• Finnish: paatunut (fi)
• French: dévergondé (fr) m, dévergondée (fr) f
• Icelandic: gjörspilltur
• Manx: jiarg
• Romanian: vicios (ro) m, desfrânat (ro) m or n, imoral (ro) m or n, nerușinat (ro) m or n
• Russian: па́дший (ru) (pádšij), распу́тный (ru) (raspútnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: meallta
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: запуштен m

  Roman: zapušten (sh) m

• Spanish: desenfrenado (es), desinhibido (es)
• Vietnamese: phóng đãng (vi), truỵ lạc (vi), trụy lạc (vi)

no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَهْجُورّ m (mahjūrr), مَتْرُوك m (matrūk)

  Egyptian Arabic: متساب m (metsāb), مهجور m (mahgūrr)

• Armenian: լքված (lkʻvac)
• Azerbaijani: baxımsız, nəzarətsiz, tərk edilmiş, atılmış
• Belarusian: закі́нуты m (zakínuty)
• Bulgarian: изоставен (bg) (izostaven)
• Catalan: abandonat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺棄的／遗弃的, 拋棄的／抛弃的

• Czech: opuštěný (cs)
• Dutch: verlaten (nl), in de steek gelaten
• Estonian: maha jäetud, hüljatud
• Finnish: hylätty (fi)
• French: abandonné (fr)
• Galician: abandonado (gl)
• Georgian: მიტოვებული (miṭovebuli)
• German: verlassen (de), herrenlos (de)
• Greek: εγκαταλελειμμένος (el) (egkataleleimménos)
• Haitian Creole: abandonnen
• Hebrew: הֶפְקֵר (he) (hefkér), עזוב (he) (azuv)
• Hindi: परित्यक्त (hi) m (parityakt)
• Icelandic: yfirgefinn (is)
• Interlingua: abandonate
• Inuktitut: hingitaq
• Irish: fágtha, tréigthe
• Italian: abbandonato (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kabuverdianu: bandonadu, bandonóde
• Khmer: ដែលបោះបង់ចោល (dêlbaŏhbângchaôl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: relictus, derelictus, desertus (la)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: faagit, treigit
• Maori: toreke
• Marathi: त्यक्त (tyakta), परित्यक्त (parityakta)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: løssluppen
• Ottoman Turkish: ویران (viran)
• Polish: opuszczony (pl)
• Portuguese: abandonado (pt)
• Romanian: abandonat (ro) m, părăsit (ro) m or n
• Russian: забро́шенный (ru) (zabróšennyj), поки́нутый (ru) (pokínutyj)
• Sanskrit: हीन (sa) (hīna)
• Scottish Gaelic: trèigte, air fhàgail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: напуштен m

  Roman: napušten (sh) m

• Spanish: abandonado (es)
• Swedish: övergiven (sv)
• Thai: ร้าง (th) (ráang)
• Turkish: terk edilmiş, metruk (tr)
• Ukrainian: поки́нутий m (pokýnutyj)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} bị bỏ rơi , ^{(please verify)} bị ruồng bỏ (vi)
• Yiddish: הפֿקר (hefker)

free from constraint, uninhibited

• Bulgarian: необуздан (bg) (neobuzdan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不羈／不羁 (zh) (bùjī)

• Dutch: ongeremd (nl)
• Finnish: pidäkkeetön, rajaton (fi)
• Icelandic: taumlaus, hóflaus
• Russian: несде́ржанный (ru) m (nesdéržannyj), необу́зданный (ru) m (neobúzdannyj), безу́держный (ru) m (bezúderžnyj)

geology: no longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it

• Dutch: geologisch stabiel

Verb

abandoned

1. simple past and past participle of abandon